An Old Letter Of Tragic Interest

HERE, found in an old letter-file in the • “PIM” office, is a letter of tragic interest.

Captain Isaac Handley, retired master

mariner, had come much in contact with Japs, in the Marshall and Caroline Islands. He suffered at their hands and

knew their cunning and treachery.

As this letter shows, the Captain, seven years before Pearl Harbour, was warning us of what the Japanese were going to

do. The material he forwarded to the “PIM” was sent to the right places—but no one appeared to take our warnings seriously. Thousands of Europeans have paid for British stupidity in imprison ment, torture and death.

Captain Handley was one of 22 Euro peans (Gilbert Islands residents and NZ soldiers) who were foully murdered by the Japs in Tarawa in October, 1942.